Democrats Approved of Waterboarding in 2002, Said Interrogators Could Do More (AKA: Those Contemptible Hacks)

Those lying, political hacks.

In September 2002, four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual tour of the CIA’s overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk.

Among the techniques described, said two officials present, was waterboarding, a practice that years later would be condemned as torture by Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill. But on that day, no objections were raised. Instead, at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder, two U.S. officials said.
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Yet long before “waterboarding” entered the public discourse, the CIA gave key legislative overseers about 30 private briefings, some of which included descriptions of that technique and other harsh interrogation methods, according to interviews with multiple U.S. officials with firsthand knowledge.

With one known exception, no formal objections were raised by the lawmakers briefed about the harsh methods during the two years in which waterboarding was employed, from 2002 to 2003, said Democrats and Republicans with direct knowledge of the matter. The lawmakers who held oversight roles during the period included Pelosi and Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.) and Sens. Bob Graham (D-Fla.) and John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), as well as Rep. Porter J. Goss (R-Fla.) and Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan).

Democrats knew and they thought it didn’t go far enough.

So what, then, has all their screaming about “torture” been about for the past five years?

I’ll tell you. Politics, plain and simple. They have damaged our national security and inflamed riots around the world, just to win a couple elections. Does Nancy Pelosi know how many American soldiers died because her putrescent two-faced attacks on George W. Bush fed into the propaganda the Islamists’ were feeding the Iraqis every day?

More – lots more – after the jump.

They need to answer for this. They need to feel the weight of their calumny in November when we go to the polls. The Democratic party needs to pay for the inexcusable savage selfishness of its leaders.

I want heads here. And I want them now. I don’t care who collects them but someone – the President, the Majority Leader, the Vice President, someone – needs to call out Pelosi and that leaky sieve Rockefeller and make them stand tall before the American people and explain why they have deceived America for five years.

And then they need to find themselves new jobs because we have no place in Congress for someone who puts an election over our country and the lives of our soldiers.

UPDATE: Jules Crittenden is brilliant.

Not fair! The Dems have a political operation to run, and if they are going to govern by poll, it really isn’t sporting for people to start poking around in what they did or didn’t do, think and say when the polls were blowing in a different direction! Next thing you know, someone’s going to say the Clinton co-presidency thought Saddam had a nuclear program and backed regime change.

Michael van der Galien sums it all up.

Does this mean that we can finally say that waterboarding receives bipartisan support?

Why yes.

And when did Democrats like Pelosi oppose waterboarding? When the public found out about it and objected to it.

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